Tourists using Google Maps to get to Rio landmark enter favela, get shot

“Very clean Vidigal” doesn’t seem to live up to its billing. (Photo: Andrew O’Reilly/Fox News Latino)

An Argentinian tourist is fighting for her life after she, her husband and another couple visiting Rio de Janeiro tried to get to Christ the Redeemer statue following Google Maps directions — and ended up in a dangerous favela (slum).

According to O'Globo newspaper, 42-year-old Natalia Lorena Cappetti underwent surgery to remove a bullet that entered through her back. She remains in serious condition, the paper said.

The two couples - one from Argentina, the other one from Spain - arrived in the city last week to attend the Carnival festivities.

A spokesman for the Military Police told Télam that the incident occurred at one of the entrances to the Morro dos Prazeres favela at around 3 p.m., when a group of men approached the tourists' vehicle, shot several rounds and fled.